We now offer a full range of repair services for all your denim jeans, jackets, and shirts. We're capable of almost anything you can imagine including putting on new buttons which have come off, repairing any holes, fixing torn pocket bags, reinforcing leather tags, re-chainstitching broken hem lines, and even installing real iron riveted suspender buttons.
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We're happy to announce that you can now have your jeans hemmed with a vintage Union Special Chainstitching Machine at all four of our stores. Also, with a chainstitch your hem will form a beautiful roping effect after time due to the opposite pull of denim from the hemming process and during washing/shrinking. Wabi-Sabi Indeed.
All jeans bought in-store at SESF, SENY, SELA, or SEPDX will be hemmed with our chainstitching machine at no extra cost to you, all previously owned jeans can be brought into the store to be chainstitched for a fee of $25.
We have acquired a 1950's Singer Darning machine at each of our stores and are now capable of repairing all holes in your jeans without the use of patches. This is how jeans were repaired from the turn of the century up until the 1960's. The machine has two threads, both indigo colored (or black/gray for black denim), and essentially creates denim where there is no denim and weaves it into the edges of the torn fabric, it's like magic and far more comfortable and cleaner looking than patching; this was the way all industrial tailors repaired jeans years ago.
1950's Singer Darning Machine
Hole in 21oz Denim (warp)
Repaired Hole in 21oz Denim (weft)